Acronyms

From OAD

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a list of acronyms commonly used in discussing open access.
• It's enough to supply the phrases for which the acronyms stand, without further definition. You may include a short annotation if there is no link available.

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• APC. Article processing charge. Also called a "publication fee" (with no acronym).

• ATA. Alliance for Taxpayer Access

[edit] B

• BBB. Budapest Bethesda Berlin. The three major public statements defining OA.

[edit] C

• CC. Creative Commons. And so on for the various CC licenses, such as CC-BY for "by" or attribution; CC-NC for no commercial use; CC-ND for no derivative works; CC-SA for share-alike; and some combinations like CC-BY-NC-ND and CC-BY-NC-SA.

[edit] D

• DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals
• DPLA. Digital Public Library of America

[edit] E

• EOS. Enabling Open Scholarship. (Eos is also the Greek word for dawn or sunrise.)
• ETD. Electronic theses and dissertations.

[edit] F

• FLOSS. Free/libre and open source software. Sometimes FOSS.
• FRPAA. Federal Research Public Access Act.

[edit] I

• IP. Intellectual property. Also IPR, intellectual property rights.

• IPOA. Informationsplattform open-access.net.

• IR. Institutional repository.

[edit] J

• JIF. Journal Impact Factor. Sometimes, IF (Impact Factor).

• JISC. Joint Information Systems Committee

[edit] O

• OA. Open access

• OAD. Open Acces Directory

• OAD. (1) Open Access Directory, (2) Open Access Day

• OAI. Open Archives Initiative

• OAI-PMH. Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

• OAJ. Open access journal.

• OAN. Open Access News

• OASIS. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

• OATP. Open Access Tracking Project

• OAW. Open Access Week

• OCW. Open CourseWare

• OER. Open educational resource(s)

• OpenDOAR. Directory of Open Access Repositories

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• PD. Public domain.

• POD. Print on demand.

• PSI. Public sector information.

[edit] R

• ROAR. Registry of Open Access Repositories

• ROARMAP. Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

• RoMEO. Rights MEtadata for Open archiving.

[edit] S

• SCOAP3. Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

• SHERPA. Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access

• SOAF. SPARC Open Access Forum

• SOAN. SPARC Open Access Newsletter

• STM. (1) Science, technology, and medicine (as fields of study); (2) International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers

• SPARC. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. See also, SPARC Europe.

• SSH. Social sciences and humanities (as fields of study). Sometimes HSS.

[edit] T

• TA. Toll access. Commonly used as the opposite of OA.